MEMBERS & VISITORS Listening To Brother Bird Sadly, most of us have forgotten the wonders and joys of early childhood. When you are born and raised in a certain part of the world, that locale gives you most of what you learn and know. Its magic and wonder eventually fades into tame familiarity so […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Young Inventors Can Harness Local Resources A primary focus of Invention School is to show apprentice inventors that there is a wealth of local resources to which large amounts of value can be added. In this light, the African leaders who we choose can make vast differences for the better OR […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Sarafina! As tensions of apartheid spread across South Africa, many students revolts to massive stone throw, a demonstration that comes in a wake of the introduction of Afrikaans language as a means of teaching. This sparks riots among school age young people who have resolved to do what it takes for […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Cancer Is Killing Black Women The main preventable causes of cancer are diet, smoking and infection. Of these, diet is likely to most disproportionately affect women over the coming years. It has been estimated that over half a million cancers worldwide can be directly linked to obesity and inactivity every year. […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Wake Up Young Africans and Transform The Continent Twende Hub is a social innovation center, with the believe of collaborating with students and community members in Tanzania to identify their challenges and design & create their own solutions to their problems will contribute to a world with improved access to technologies […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS African American Builds Ghana Movie Studio Ghana can likely claim the honor of having the most visionary and progressive set of national leaders in Africa. It is evident in so many of the bold projects undertaken by diverse global interests within the African diaspora. A Los Angeles-born entrepreneur enstooled as Mpuntuhene […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Obruni, Mzungu, Whatever… When my wife and I first landed in Ghana in 1971, as African Americans we were completely baffled as to why Ghanaians referred to both of us as Obruni, the term used for white people. Since I was lighter skinned than my wife maybe that was a reasonable […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS A journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step. TODAY’S YOUTH WILL NOT ALLOW AFRICA TO BE RECOLONIZED A special form of light made using an ancient Namibian gemstone could be the key to new light-based quantum computers, which could solve long-held scientific mysteries, according to new research led by […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS INDUSTRY AND POLITICAL LEADERS FALSIFYING THEIR OWN COVID 19 VAX STATUS AFRICA ALERT: INDUSTRY AND POLITICAL LEADERS FALSIFYING THEIR OWN COVID 19 VAX STATUS If these genetics altering injections were truly safe and effective, why are people who are truly in the know about this global roll-out going to considerable lengths […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN Yes, Africa has had tragic histories which, at times, have been hard to comprehend in their scope. A refugee’s escape, a prisoner’s promise, and a daughter’s painful secret converge in this inspiring real life story of hope. As three fathers fight to save their families, their lives […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS Why Black Americans Are Leaving The U.S. “I Don’t Think I’m Going To Get That Here” A small but growing percentage of African descendants in America and elsewhere are taking a clear-eyed look at their domestic situation in 2022 just as some European Jews did in the mid 1930s. Consider the […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS BUSINESS 101 BUSINESS 101: Satisfy A Need Most would agree that there are a huge number of ways to satisfy the heirarchy of human needs. An enterprising business person typically identifies a human want or need and develops a way to satisfy customers, no matter how simple or complex. Frankly, I […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS This World Is All About Branding and Marketing Africa needs superheroes like Shaka Zulu, Akon says. It is time to rebrand Africa. It is time for the African content makers to show the beautiful side of Africa. Akon who is on a mission to promote Africa was speaking in Rwanda. It […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS What If Africa Was Just ONE Country? What If Africa Was Just ONE Country? Make no mistake, drawing up broad generalizations about the African continent is likely to be met with strong reactions, often deemed willfully ignorant. For as long as time has allowed, Africa has struggled with an image problem, […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS BUILDING INVENTION SCHOOL GRAPHIC NOVELS BUILDING INVENTION SCHOOL GRAPHIC NOVELS Two of my areas of expertise are in computer graphics and 3D animation. With this background I’m able to accurately visualize all of the characters and scenes taking place within my stories. Kimathi and Kate are the Founders of Africa […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS INVENTION SCHOOL: End Game INVENTION SCHOOL: End Game Economies grow not only by adding more capital and labor. A vital ingredient Invention School will contribute to African development is skill in creating and commercializing innovation, which makes investment and workers more productive. Productivity, which is defined as the value of goods […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS INNOVATION KNOWS NO BOUNDS Creativity can apply to solving social problems, making potable water, developing sustainable energy systems, healing sickness, developing affordable housing, or creating a recipe for a dazzling new soft drink… Coca Cola has become a global soft drink behemoth after introducing its highly sought after beverages. One of […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS CORRUPTION: Crime Against Humanity SaharaTV interviews Director of Kenya School of Law and the former Director of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission, Prof. Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba. Across the African continent, claims Prof. Lumumba, corruption has killed more people than all of Africa’s civil wars. Corruption should rightfully be labeled as a […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS WILL CAPITALISTS EAT INVENTORS? WILL CAPITALISTS EAT INVENTORS FOR BREAKFAST, LUNCH, AND DINNER? I have personally experienced how evil and wicked even ordinarily good people can become when they are presented with the opportunity to make a lot of money. I invented a patented device, under contract, for de-boning chicken wings. […]
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MEMBERS & VISITORS AMERICAN IMPERIALISM OF AFRICANS AT ITS FINEST Another cautionary tale for modern Africa… “I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues,” Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, a leader of the American force in Haiti, wrote in 1935, describing himself as a “racketeer […]
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